Applying WebTables in Practice
Summary: Practical deployment of WebTables: scalable filtering to separate data vs. layout/navigation tables and semantic recovery to build a semantically enriched corpus. Corpus powers a 100M+ table structured-data index, Google Docs Research Panel, and richer search snippets. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Sreeram Balakrishnan
- 2. Alon Halevy
- 3. Boulos Harb
- 4. Hongrae Lee
- 5. Jayant Madhavan
- 6. Afshin Rostamizadeh
- 7. Warren Shen
- 8. Kenneth Wilder
- 9. Fei Wu
- 10. Cong Yu
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 609 | Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.00019223217 |
| 2,214 | Data Integration: After the Teenage Years | 2017 | PODS | 9.2796408e-05 |
| 3,163 | Ten Years of WebTables | 2018 | VLDB | 7.4611268e-05 |
| 3,798 | Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality | 2017 | VLDB | 6.753528e-05 |
| 9,017 | Knowledge Exploration Using Tables on the Web | 2017 | VLDB | 4.4052897e-05 |
| 9,161 | Automatically Generating Interesting Facts from Wikipedia Tables | 2019 | SIGMOD | 4.380727e-05 |
| 9,851 | Adaptive Schema Databases | 2017 | CIDR | 4.2680295e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 108 | WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00048345996 |
| 420 | InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00023700634 |
| 1,005 | Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00014694038 |
| 1,370 | Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00012339543 |
| 2,638 | Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web | 2013 | VLDB | 8.3995765e-05 |
| 3,293 | Biperpedia: An Ontology for Search Applications | 2014 | VLDB | 7.2598242e-05 |
| 4,838 | Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers | 2014 | VLDB | 5.883146e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,232 | InfoGather+: Semantic Matching and Annotation of Numeric and Time-Varying Attributes in Web Tables | 2013 | SIGMOD | 7.3324293e-05 |
| 2,638 | Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web | 2013 | VLDB | 8.3995765e-05 |
| 7,423 | Table Extraction and Understanding for Scientific and Enterprise Applications | 2020 | VLDB | 4.729385e-05 |
| 1,316 | Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00012616422 |
| 365 | Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00025616694 |
| 1,370 | Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00012339543 |
| 3,163 | Ten Years of WebTables | 2018 | VLDB | 7.4611268e-05 |
| 8,915 | Making Table Understanding Work in Practice | 2022 | CIDR | 4.4229886e-05 |
| 1,005 | Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00014694038 |
| 108 | WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00048345996 |